In Reply to: And yet they lament the paucity of younger people entering the hobby posted by Brian H P on February 8, 2024 at 15:19:51:
I have a very satisfying system in our living room (my listening room is of course better still) which consists of a NuForce DDA-120 integrated amp ($275 used), Polk R300 floorstanders ($100 for the pair - on sale) and either a Raspberry Pi4 ($80) or Roku player ($70?) for sources. digital signal is fed via HDMI to the TV and comes out as optical PCM digital where it is fed to the DDA-120. So assuming one already owns a TV and some sort of streamer box like a Roku, total cost about $375 plus cables. I use a Blue Jeans toslink cable and Mogami 3103 / Cardas bananas (already had them) for speaker cables.Any young person with a job could put together such a system and I lived with just that system for a couple of years. The NuForce amp is very good.
Edits: 02/08/24 02/08/24
This post is made possible by the generous support of people like you and our sponsors:
Follow Ups
- RE: And yet they lament the paucity of younger people entering the hobby - kh6idf 15:48:18 02/08/24 (8)
- RE: And yet they lament the paucity of younger people entering the hobby - mark.korda@myfairpoint.net 18:45:29 02/08/24 (7)
- That was Sam Tellig with the twisted 18ga RatShack solid core - Brian H P 13:08:52 02/09/24 (6)
- Sam Tellig! He was my hero in the '80s . . . - Billy Wonka 16:20:23 02/12/24 (5)
- He lost me with the CD/Armor All tweak - Steve O 05:00:31 02/16/24 (4)
- RE: He lost me with the CD/Armor All tweak - Jack G 12:56:17 02/16/24 (3)
- The Armor-all is SUPPOSED to be buffed off after it dries - Brian H P 12:46:23 02/19/24 (0)
- RE: He lost me with the CD/Armor All tweak - Steve O 19:31:21 02/16/24 (1)
- RE: He lost me with the CD/Armor All tweak - Jack G 16:14:28 02/18/24 (0)